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ADAMS; CORIGLIANO; GLASS 'Icons'
Elizabeth Pridgen | Robert McDuffie
To grasp the recent evolution of the American violin sonata, one need look no further than this excellent recording of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2023
MASLANKA Symphony No 10, 'The River of Time'
John McMurtery | Mike Fansler | Moisés Molina | Western Illinois University Wind Ensemble
When David Maslanka died on August 7, 2017, barely five weeks after his wife and three weeks shy of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020
MAXWELL DAVIES The Last Island
A keen sense of time and place – and increasingly of man’s transient existence within it – forms an important theme in...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW17
MARTINŮ Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Josef Špaček, Miroslav Sekera)
Josef Špaček | Miroslav Sekera | Petr Popelka | Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Martinů’s eccentric compositional fluency can throw even ardent admirers off the scent. Of the three works included in the present...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
Andrei Gavrilov | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The first sign of trouble comes after the minicadenza in the first movement exposition, which Gavrilov concludes so artificially that...
Reviewed in issue 12/1987
Schumann & Sibelius Violin Concertos
Gidon Kremer | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
A successful CD of an interesting coupling. The balance of the soloist remains noticeably forward, the solo timbre very tangible...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1985
ARNE Artaxerxes (Page)
A lot has changed in the decade since this Artaxerxes was originally released. Ian Page’s Classical Opera Company has become...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
MONTEVERDI L’incoronazione di Poppea (Christie)
William Christie has conducted several productions of Poppea, including a staging by Pier Luigi Pizzi filmed in Madrid in 2010...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019
Come to Me in My Dreams:120 Years of Song from the Royal College of Music
Joseph Middleton | Sarah Connolly
A truly lovely programme, this, as generous as it is absorbing, devoted to songs spanning some 120 years by composers...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Anne Sofie von Otter | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Thomas Quasthoff
A finely balanced recording places the voices in ideal relationship with the orchestra which itself is given a well-aired, clean...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999
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